Building from Source

If you prefer to install Xen by building from source, you’ll need a system that support makefiles and GCC (or Clang).

Cross-Compiling

Xen uses cross-compilation toolchains for Linux like MinGW and osxcross to provide builds for platforms other than Linux. In order to build all platforms without modification to the makefiles requires having these toolchains installed and in your PATH.

If you have all the required toolchains installed, you can run the following command to build targets for all platforms:

$ make all-platforms

Compiler Support

By default, Xen uses GCC to build on Linux, MinGW for Windows, and Clang for macOS. MSVC has not been tested in any capacity.

Building Xen

1. Get the source

Cloning from GitHub:

GitHub will have the latest changes but typically contains breaking changes. Checkout a tagged release if stability is what you want.

$ git clone https://github.com/XenLanguage/Xen

Download source tarball from releases:

This contains source code from stable releases.

$ wget https://github.com/jakerieger/Xen/archive/refs/tags/v0.5.4.tar.gz

2. Run make

$ cd Xen
$ make all

That’s pretty much it. Builds will be located in build/<platform>-<target>.